training, accountancy, “We have succeeded I BEYOND

IT and small business think because we are cloud

management. quite brave. We’ve been

careful with our money

Then there is a web but we’ve made good

agency called SiftGroups acquisitions with the

‘

for membership result that we punch

organisations and We have above our weight.”

charities; PracticeWEB, succeeded I

a platform-based web think because Big hitting

and content service we are quite It has helped that

for accountancy firms brave. We’ve Priscott has formed

and financial advisors; been careful a strong working

and AccountingWEB, a with our money partnership with Sift’s

flagship community for but we’ve founder and chief

accounting professionals made good executive Ben Heald,

in the UK and US. acquisitions forged in the course

with the result of Sift’s “various

High scoring that we punch acquisitions and cash

Founded at the start of above our adventures”.

the dot com boom of

the late nineties, Sift

has maintained a high

weight

’

Steven Priscott,

Finance Director,

Says Priscott: “You’ve

got to be careful with

run rate over the past Sift Media acquisitions. You have

sixteen years and grew got to have integration,

a respectable 10% last alignment and an

year. “Not bad in these advantage from the deal.

times,” observes Priscott. It is advisable to set up

“They have been tough, a special team to handle

but because there are the integration process.

so many possibilities We have bought a few

out there, our biggest companies in that way

challenge has been and they have fitted in

picking the right one. well.”

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